Albert Camus' The Stranger: Meursault Is Aloof, Detached, and Unemotional
In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator
and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think
much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in
relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness
throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the
book. After his mother's death he sheds no tears; seems to show no emotions.
He displays limited feelings for his girlfriend, Marie Cardona, and shows no
remorse at all for killing an Arab. His reactions to life and to people
distances him from his emotions, positive or negative, and from intimate
relationships with others, thus he is called by the book's title, "the
stranger". While this behavior can be seen as a negative trait, there is a
young woman who seems to want to have a relationship with Meursault and a
neighbor who wants......
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